Steven Spielberg Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
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If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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I'm happiest when I'm discussing a script and working with interesting people.
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Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
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If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I'm so fascinated by them and can't get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.
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The Way to ſee by Faith is to ſhut the Eye of Reaſon: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
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All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.
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My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.
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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
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As with early internet startups, some token models don't make sense. For every 1 huge hit, there will be 3 minor successes and 100 failures, so we shouldn't be surprised when some fail.
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Not everything that happens in an in-person classroom is currently replicated with an online course, and perhaps the experience will never be the quite the same. But there are new opportunities that online learning opens up that would have never been possible without this technology.
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Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact.
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As much as we love an excuse to dress up, the red carpet is not the place.
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It was definitely during the Obama administration that talking about racism, or calling it out, suddenly seemed taboo. It seemed like talking about race was somehow summoning the evil of racism.
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What did school matter compared to a sister?
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My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
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I am a very impatient director.
